Unstable Way Home by limered 2021-10-05T18:36:32Z
Great idea for a game, very satisfying to kick everyone
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | 👥 | Mimics Must Die! | jam | 290 | 3.77 | 3.62 | 3.40 | 3.90 | 3.75 | 3.30 | 4.20 | 4.00 |
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | 👥 | Collect-o-maniac | jam | 137 | 3.89 | 4.01 | 3.52 | 4.04 | 3.76 | 3.75 | 4.27 | 3.70 |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | HAIRDIVERS | jam | 62 | 4.16 | 4.22 | 3.18 | 4.31 | 3.69 | 3.75 | 4.49 | 4.04 |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Crazy Court Summons | jam | 199 | 3.95 | 4.11 | 3.02 | 3.35 | 3.81 | 3.52 | 4.16 | 3.80 |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Cosmic Cargo Chaos | jam | 128 | 4.05 | 3.92 | 3.66 | 4.44 | 3.70 | 3.78 | 3.93 | 3.92 |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Delivery of Duty: Same Shift Different Package | jam | 625 | 3.55 | 3.62 | 3.42 | 4.15 | 3.27 | 3.60 | 3.50 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Harvest Mouse | jam | 289 | 3.64 | 3.66 | 3.06 | 2.86 | 3.14 | 3.04 | 3.36 | 3.51 |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Midnight Game Child | jam | 149 | 3.96 | 3.83 | 3.74 | 3.77 | 3.61 | 4.14 | 3.93 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Inevitable Dungeon | jam | 997 | 3.28 | 3.32 | 2.76 | 3.46 | 3.35 | 3.02 | 2.86 | 3.19 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Scootles | jam | 689 | 3.57 | 3.68 | 3.39 | 3.60 | 3.14 | 4.00 | 3.50 |
Great idea for a game, very satisfying to kick everyone
Goal is unclear. I am I meant to be gently spitting out objects? Initially felt like a bug. Fun concept, but could do with clearer indication of gameplay.
Very fun driving game, though I feel the first level was unnecessarily hard (I almost gave up before getting to level 2). Levels after that are much more fun. Really like the bounce/reflect wall mechanic. Controls felt great
Absolutely wonderful, I had a blast playing this. Whole experience was brilliant
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Arr! Fun twist on minigolf. Looks nice 'n plays well
Fun game, AI keeps destroying me.
Had loads of fun with this. Great concept, great gameplay and the whole thing has a good amount of polish. Only issue I had was with the fixed camera. If the stage tilts too far away from the camera it becomes impossible to recover since I can't see/interact with anything! Otherwise a near perfect entry
Enjoyed playing, though I struggled with keyboard controls as I too often applied too much thrust. Love idea of building the machine and then flying it. Would have been nice to be able to rotate camera while playing (unless I missed something?)
Fun concept, would be nice to see more interesting modulations (current only solving for amplitude and frequency? noise/distortion/AM could make things more fun).
Funny, little but janky but fun to play regardless!
Really fun and challenging. I was playing with keyboard which made it much harder to control. Great concept!
I will never not approve the sale of high explosives. The police aren't any fun at all Fun game!
Fun platform puzzler. Movement could be a little faster, enjoyed the puzzles and different creature mechanics
Great looking game, and quite challenging. Good fun but would be nice to know if I have surplus of an animal before shipping
Super atmospheric and creepy. Difficult to understand at first (I was randomly combining cards), but eventually I got the hang of it. Great concept and decent controls. Pet the dog :)
I enjoyed playing this, I love that the fate of your home country can come down to having ice cream. Very on theme, great face animations too!
I was able to survive the nuking (at least for another month)
Seems like fun, but I cannot play. Movement controls seem to "stick" and once I've pressed "a" I get stuck moving left and cannot undo it. (pressing "d" forces me to move right but "a" overrides it and moves left instead). Any suggestions on a workaround? Playing in Chrome
@caramelcode running incognito seems to resolve the problem, thanks.
Really enjoy the combat, though it gets very difficult around floor 8. Great sprites and animations. Had good fun with this one
I'm a sucker for deck building games and I had good fun with this one. Really liked the card art, and the setting felt cosy. It's a shame that loosing is inevitable, I felt like I had a good deck going but my opponent has endless coins to play with!
3.29 and rank B :)
Had a blast with this, good humour and great theme
Damn cat! Makes some cute noises though. Don't think I did any better than 30 seconds, but I had fun playing this game
Fun concept, pleasing visuals and a fun game to play. It was a little confusing as to what actions affected morale, and I seemed to have more success using the dice exclusively on the random events. Managed to get my crew back safely so I'm happy :)
Super cute and very fun. Got 10 escapes on my first attempt, gets very tense as the beat speeds up! 18 is my best score
Love the sprites and the tileset, music is wonderful too. Really enjoyed the stealth gameplay, get a bit hectic when you have multiple knights stomping around near by! Great play on the theme too, very unexpected!
Silly fun, I like how I can shave his whole face and still do a good job
I enjoyed playing this, simple to learn but hard to master! Good job! (current) 2nd place on leaderboard with 3838 Only real criticism is the spikes - hitbox is bigger than I would expect.
Great game with a brilliantly executed concept.
Pixel art and sound are great, and the level/puzzle design was engaging. The time element really puts the pressure on!
Very creepy and fun to play. the sound effects, lighting, and art gave a real sense of tension. Managed to win after 7 attempts or so. Great job!
Made it out :) Felt like a god once I'd collected enough upgrades.
Really liked the style, effects, and music . Had fun with this one
Challenging but I like the concept. Artwork and music are great, really like the fast turnaround of the rounds.
I like the concept, art and music. Very atmospheric
Struggled with the platforming initially. Best I managed was surviving 4 explosions.
Won't rate just now, game doesn't seem to be working correctly? I can swing the scythe at spawn, but I get reset if I do it anywhere near the people?
Art is nice, but I'll wait to rate the game properly in case the author uploads a fixed version
Great idea for a puzzle platformer. Aesthetics/music was calming. Made it as far as the double slopes level and wasn't able to progress any further, found timing the throws a little two difficult for getting up. Great entry though, really enjoyed playing this
Really fun, very chaotic but a great concept
Very frantic puzzle/action game. really like the idea, though I felt like I barely had enough time to move between the 3 bays. Best score was 130 before I manage to block myself in :) Had good fun with this one
@boodle Thanks for you feedback. You are right, the lying down is redundant in this version. We had hoped to include more variations of the checks he makes but ran short on time. We had voice lines, but no logic in place.
I am free?
Fun little adventure game, the elevator music caught me off guard and made me laugh. I enjoyed playing this
Great visuals and music. Was a little confused why some of my fire engines don't refill water, and why others become unresponsive/disappear. Had fun nonetheless, was able to save 6 houses :)
Managed to get to 17 objects. It was getting crowded under the teapot towards the end!
Excellent entry, voice acting is superb and I love the fast paced interviews. Art is wonderful too Thoroughly enjoyed playing this, well done!
Really like the drawing + platformer combo, works really well in the context of the game. Great variety of enemies with nice spires and animations, same with the music and sounds. Great entry, thank you
Very fun stealth game, good balance of patrols and places to sneak. Chase music is a lot of fun too. Great entry, had fun with this
Fun little adventure. Was initially confused by the drawing thing as I though "Quit" was "Quit game". Enjoyed the adventure after that, cute little sprites and some nice backgrounds
Really like the concept and presentation. I agree with what other's have said; a couple of "training" levels to ease a player in would have been ideal. I had to give in a check hints as it was very difficult to comprehend the mechanics of the puzzle. With a couple of quality of life changes this could be a fantastic puzzle game (even on mobile). Great job!
Interesting concept, but feels nearly impossible once they start attacking more than one tower. Like the fun artwork though, interesting spin on the theme 5555b[1].gif
I like the concept, definitely has potential to be a fun puzzle game if a little more complexity was added. Managed to get 5/5 in the end
Solid gameplay, nice simple start before it ramps up in difficulty. Can only manage 10 minutes or so before the huge hoards overwhelm me, really enjoy playing. Like the art and the sounds
Great entry. Enjoyed the voice lines and the humour, and gameplay was satisfying too. Endless mode is pretty addictive too!
@JoshKirby forgot to publish on itchio. The embed at the top of this page should have worked too. itch.io version now live, thanks for letting us know
Very relaxing and fun farming game. Scaling of crops/income feels right and makes me want to keep buying/upgrading the crops forever. Very on theme and well made
Fun game, really like the graphics/music. Managed to finish will all 56 crops Great entry all round
I am the winner!
Fun, but slightly confusing. Got shot by the first person I found. Second person helped me grow crops
Fun but a little frantic. Was confused why my crops died to quickly in the beginning before I realised that was the point. Would be nice if there was a little more feedback when the watering can was empty. Think I was often trying to water crops with no water. Sometimes buttons missed clicks topo, which threw me off. Otherwise I had fun with this game. Very on theme and nice graphics
Great concept, really like the aesthetic and music. However, hard to play as the camera refuses to pan over the right half of the field, forcing me to guess where I am. Not sure if that is intended or not
Great tune, but I think my game was running out of sync? After a while the buttons didn't seem to line up with the beat of the music anymoire? Really like the artwork, and like the concept too!
Great spin on the theme, love the idea of harvesting powerups from stuffed toys. I had a lot of fun building my defences up, but I think I may have broken the game a little. The multishot + extra damage updates on towers next to the spawn is a little OP, and I've been running the game at full speed for the past 5 minutes and nothing is getting past :) Really like the art too, great job!
Very interesting spin on 2d slider puzzles, I like that it breaks your expectations of how the boxes should behave. Clever puzzle game, good job
Pidgeon army ftw. I like clicker games and this was a lot of fun to play! Needs more dog upgrades
Fun relaxing game, nice art and music. Well presented
Great entry. I like the concept, the controls are tight and its fun and challenging to play! Some music/sfx would only make it better
Very comfy game, lovely music and really enjoyable to play. Upgrades feel rewarding, and I ended up buying everything. Great game to play after a late night due to submission
I liked the sonic-style health system, and the sfx/sprites made me chuckle. Simple and funny
Solid game loop, early game feels fun and tense. Great atmosphere with the graphics, sfx and music. Lack of variety was the only downside, and your not finished features list seems to agree with this.
Made it to 14:37, 483 kills w/ 21 delivers. Got too cocky with the speed upgrades and trapped myself in a group of enemies. Had good fun with this
Very nice game, impressed all of the art/sound was made during the jam. Enjoyed playing this
Impressive for 6hrs of development. Satisfying to play (although feels a little unbalanced as other comments have mentioned)
Brilliant combination of theme and mechanics. Took me a a minute to understand how I was meant to play, but once I understood the mechanics I really enjoyed this. Great puzzle design
Great entry, I had fun playing this. Presented well with good graphics and sound. Gameplay was fun, but requires more balance I think (felt a bit too easy early on, maybe making things faster overall could help with that?) . I really like the "breakout but in a ring" concept!
Great fun, very good entry.
Impressive that you got a game out in the first 6 hours, very on theme and fun to play. Would've been nice if there was some feedback/score on how well the run was going. It also wasn't obvious if the higher-rune summons were better or not?
Great idea for a game, really like the fact that you have to clear the bugs without being seen! Gets quite difficult when there are multiple inspectors, and it can sometimes be hard to see the bugs on some tiles. Great fun to play, good job!
Really like this one. Controls and movement were right and fluid. A small amount of texture on the surfaces would really help with giving a sense of speed/distances, which sometimes was confusing. Also, please let me fullscreen :) (even if its fixed resolution). Overall a great entry
Fantastic concept, and really well executed. Fun to play and slightly addictive. I ended up with a couple of broken "junctions" where webs crossed but I couldn't travel over. That's not surprising though, I imagine the web walking/building is a pretty complicated system. Great job!
nom nom nom yummy! Fun game, I really like the funny food names/ingredients. Art/music/sounds etc. are very fitting. Good job!
Great game, insect art is spot on and the combat was great too. Just the right level of tactical/strategical. Made it to level 18 on my first attempt, and towards the end was barely surviving on vice hp steal. Great job!
Absolutely hilarious, this was so much fun to play! I encountered a bug where my pogostick glitched and sent me flying into the sky, taking the vignette with me! Which only made it funnier.
Love the artwork and sound, great entry
Not sure if I was doing something wrong, but the balancing game seems impossible for me. No matter how much I mashed it was not possible to correct the balance? The other minigames were fun though!
I really liked the nom sounds. Satisfying gameplay, and fun to swarm the enemies!
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I'll take rank 8 :) Fun spin on the pokemon formula, great art and fun to play.
Fantastic entry, and a surprisingly difficult boss fight. Loved the dave the diver/souls references. Had to keep playing until I beat him! Great artwork and sfx/music
Unfortunately couldn't get it to work in chrome/edge. Could you publish a windows build please?
Confusing initially, but fun none the less. I like the bullet-time you get after getting a cat to smash something.
Fun, love the car city playmat. The manic/crazy driving is fun, though it wasn't 100% obvious what the objective was immediately. Once I understood though, I had fun. The (i) page only displayed some images, was there meant to be some text there? Overall, great job. Had fun playing this
What a great but gross game, fantastic concept and a well rounded game. Took a few attempts to win, but finally got there. Love the fail/wain screens too win.png
Always great to see a cutscene! Capture.PNG (2nd attempt) Liked the respawning enemies, it made the platforming a lot more strategic. Think the controls need some rate-limiting though, as I managed to pull off some suspect double jumps, and spamming dash lets you move VERY quickly. Had fun with this one, good job!
Fantastic concept, and very well executed. Great creepy vibes and moments of panic when you run out of light before surveying everything. Really good entry!
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Mimic gave itself away once either due to moving with the white outline over it!
Extremely well polished, love the idea and the racing was fun once I understood what was happening. The first few "shrink" obstacles weren't obvious, as moving at speed meant it was really difficult to see the text. Perhaps a static early warning (at the edge of the screen) would have been a better way to communicate what to do? Overall, great style in the graphics, menus and music. They look incredible good for jam game!
Great entry! Puzzles require some thought and the presentation is excellent. Great sfx & visuals, and fun to play through
Fun strategy game, I like the sprites and the tiles (but consistent scale would make it look even better imo). Some inconsistencies in the interactions made it a little frustrating: units getting randomly deselected, enemy sprites sometimes hanging around for a round while dead? Movement range hard to see over certain terrain. I enjoyed playing it, but these little issues took some of the fun away. Good job overall!
Interesting concept, would have been nice to have a score target/end condition
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Art and sound are both great, and a fun idea for a game. I found the hit detection a little inconsistent though, which made it hard to make some shots, also I think the goalkeeper may be cheating a big. They seem to hit it back when they are far away :p Great entry!
Great concept, the controls seemed bugged at first as pressing x seemed inconsistent when chewing the wires. Took me a bit to figure out its more effective if held. Very challenging too, kept getting caught out by sparks appearing from nowhere (I assume the level above). I had fun playing this
That was fantastic, art, music, boss designs were all brilliant. Really good entry win2.png
Could do with a little bit of feedback when you damage a boss. 2nd stage wasn't obvious (I only realised my mistake when re-reading the page), and I'm still not sure about the damage for the 3rd boss. Despite shooting continuously, I had a few runs that ran into much later stages, but my winning run I won before it got too crazy?
Also, was I hearing *that* "oof" in the 2nd stage soundtrack?
Fun! And gets very hectic at times! Love the art and the concept of the game
Nice relaxing game. Really like the simple visuals and the music. Controlled well and was fun to play!
Impressive for 4 hours work. I really like the creature sprites
Fun game, though I found towards the end the only stategy is to spam the "friends" powerup. Would be nice if there were some options for expensive permanent upgrades, to incentivise investment vs temp powerups. Good job!
Really enjoyed playing this, felt like a proper RTS as I was balancing exploration with defence. One bug I noticed was that if you attack an enemy ant before it gets to the hive, and then run away, it seems to break the AI as it just sits there. Great entry!
Great idea, but the tank controls and fixed camera makes it really quite difficult. Especially on the thinner branches, where a tap of a key can spin you around and disorient or knock you off the tree. Some tweening/smoothing on the camera would help a lot, same with the inputs to allow some softer moves. Overall it looks great, great UI and art! Good job!
Got away with 2 socks :)
Really unique entry, not seen many stealth/puzzle games this year. Mechnics were great and the puzzles were fun to solve, even though I didn't manage to find solutions with all the socks. Good job!
Interesting concept for the game, I like the visuals. Tank controls are a bit clunky (and character animation seems to float instead of running?). Think there might be a bug, as there was nothing I could interact with in the second screen, and its possible to fall out the back. Should there be an object that can be taken in that screen?
Love the art style, and I loved the touch of the car getting more crumpled as you crashed! 2 minutes flat, 28s best lap. The handling could do with a bit of work, as it felt like the only option for some of the corners was to come to a near dead stop. Other than that it was fun to play, a great entry!
Love the concept of just being support for the main party, though it took me a few turns to realise my team would actively kill me if I wasn't careful! Got the hang of "aiming" the knight eventually, and managed to make it to the end (although I was apparently quite slow, as the music gave up on me). Love the cutscene and the voices too, adds a lot of character to the game!
Fun little adventure, nice story and I liked the drawings. Got one of the good endings (and a few of the bad)! Noticed one bug - an image missing on one of the scenes: Capture.PNG
To echo the other comments, I think the wrong build was published? Happy to try again if you upload a new build
I'm confused, is there a playable game here?
Great game concept for the jam, and I like the cute character models. The giant towers of hats made me laugh, but I think I ended up freezing my game at the end when I spammed throwing a ton of hats at spider girl! Great entry!
Fun to play through and such a funny/silly take on the theme! Powering up was satisfying though the last fight felt like it ended really quickly. One moment he was on 99million hp/money and suddenly he was dead. Great entry
I had a laugh playing this, brilliant dialogue! Great parody of pokemon
Very cool mechanic, took a moment to understand the leaning vs moving, but fun to play once I got the hang of it. Art and sound were great, well done!
Excellent game, really interesting combination of mechanics and it makes for some great and interesting puzzles. Very well polished as well, this could easily have been a steam nextfest demo that I would have wishlisted at the end!
Very interesting take, I would have summaries of the intended dialogue instead of cut-off sentences, but I understand that in a game jam that would have been impossible. Impressive entry!
Interesting concept but I think it needs a bit more direction, hard to tell what you are meant to do from the outset. Combinations are cool, and slightly addictive!
Took a while to understand the mechanics but the tutorial helped. A bit more feedback might have been useful, but I liked the concept!
I like the concept of the game, but the controls were a little odd and the camera clipping into the walls/ceiling was quite jarring. A cool prototype, but could do with a lot of polish
The creepy atmosphere was very well executed. Music was great and I liked the art, great job
Interesting take on the theme, but it wasn't super obvious what the goal was. I fed mother, but couldn't use the roots or rocks up. After 4 minutes I couldn't find enough food. I like the art!
I liked the art and the storytelling, and the atmosphere. Tuning minigame was confusing at first, as the popup text showing controls didn't show me keycodes, just odd symbols and I had to hit random keys until something happened. Good effort to get a complete experience!